The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

The return makes one love the farewell.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them